Illinois is so horrible to live in (with the taxes) that many are fleeing. Trump won 88 of Illinois' 102 counties. My own daughter fled Illinois to move to the Ozarks. Her property taxes increased year after year. She was a little afraid of not finding a nursing Job there, but opportunities abound! There have been NO regrets!

How is he going to get the products to Illinois? The Mississippi?
If it was El Paso and Juarez, there might be some merit to this fiasco, but Illinois is over 1000 miles from the Mexico border and the 'State' of Mexico is in the middle of Mexico. Purely political and a waste of the taxpayers’ money.....

Lynda

Since when do individual states have the authority to conduct trade or commerce with foreign nations? Has this guy even read the Constitution???

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a trade agreement with the state of Mexico – commonly known as Edomex to distinguish it from the country as a whole – during a trip to the country on Monday, aiming to deepen economic cooperation.

Pritzker led the delegation of state officials and business leaders on a trade mission to Mexico, where he signed an addendum to the Illinois-Mexico Sister-State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) alongside the State of Mexico Gov. Delfina Gómez Álvarez.

Pritzker's office confirmed to Fox News Digital that the MOU – a non-binding agreement between two or more parties that expresses an intent to cooperate – was between Illinois and the State of Mexico, one of 31 states that make up Mexico.

"Mexico has been an essential partner to the state of Illinois for decades, and I’m proud to stand alongside Governor Gómez Álvarez and assert the importance of this continuing relationship," Pritzker said in a written statement. "More than ever before, we must reassure our neighbors in Mexico that Illinois will remain a beacon of economic and cultural cooperation and opportunity for our people."

The agreement focuses on bilateral trade in manufacturing, agriculture and finance between Illinois and the State of Mexico at a time when U.S. trade relations with Mexico have grown tense under President Donald Trump, who has threatened the country with tariffs.